The folks at HIDIVE have made a welcome streaming pickup of a former Amazon exclusive with My Girlfriend is Shobitch. The series is set to stream on the HIDIVE service beginning on June 22nd, 2018 with a new episode released every week at 12:00 pm ET in its original Japanese language with English subtitles. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series back in September 2017 and the Japanese home video release wrapped up in April 2018. No North American home video release has been formally scheduled yet.
The show is being directed by Nobuyoshi Nagayama based on the series composition from Hideki Shirane. Sachiko Yasuda is handling the character designs with animation produced by Diomedea.
The Japanese cast includes Aoi Yuuki as Akiho Kousaka, Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Haruka Shinozaki, Rarisa Tako Takeda as Shizuku Ariyama, Natsumi Yamada as Rina Saijou, Yuki Yagi as Kanada Shinozaki, Juri Nagatsuma as Saori Igarashi, Miki Hase as Sayo Shizumori, Marin Mizutani as Misaki Aikawa, Arthur Lounsbery as Seiya Hoshikawa, Megumi Nakamura as Ichika Omori, Iori Nomizu as Aoi Koshimizu, Ayasa Itō as Huyumi Kōsaka, and Jun Miyamoto as Natsuo Shinozaki.
The opening theme song by Aoi Yuki with “Eternal Labyrinth” while the ending theme song “Ai no Himitsu” will be performed by several of the main voice actresses.
The manga has been serialized on the Niconico Seiga site since summer 2015 with it getting five print volumes so far.
Plot Concept: After Shinozaki Haruka confesses to the Class Rep, Kousaka Akiho, he comes to find that the perfect class representative might be a little bit harder to handle than he previously thought!
